Two officers in Euro generals case ask court to quash cases against them

In his motion, Orlando Pestaño, a former director for finance, pointed to then PNP chief Director-General Verzosa as the one ultimately responsible for the release of funds. 

 

“He did not act on his own but upon the instruction of authority in control of the use of the confidential/intelligence funds. The one in control is the chief PNP Jesus Versoza...a facial examination of the Information against him shows it to be patently irregular and fatally flawed,” Pestaño’s motion said. 

 

Meanwhile for his part, disbursing officer Samuel Rodriguez asked the court to junk the multiple graft cases against him, since he allegedly informed Pestaño, his immediate supervisor, of the illegal nature of the disbursements.

 

“Rodriguez made a notification in writing to his immediate superior [and] co-accused Pestaño. He was also quick and alert to detect red flags in the unusual instruction of co-accused [Tomas] Rentoy to him to have P10 million fund available for release to [then police director  Eliseo] Dela Paz. This alone is enough to exclude him in the case,” Rodriguez’s motion said.

 

The two former police officers also asked the anti-graft court’s second division to defer their arraignment pending the resolution of their motions. 

 

Both were initially scheduled to be arraigned on April 7.